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[–] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Don't worry, I'm drinking enough for several people so it evens out.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Does that mean the price of liquor is gonna drop? Cause NOT SO FAR.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Other way around. Modern capitalism dictates that as sales drop, prices must rise so profits can remain the same or continue increasing.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Yeah about that.. nothing modern about it. That's what it was supposed to be by the old observations when people had actual scarcity of .. wheat and corn or whatever.

    It doesn't work for alcohol today. There are still people doing moonshine brew because it can't get cheap enough. The demand will never reach a bottom nor a peak.

    It's layers of markets. If you can't sell your shit brew at "market price" you can always dump the price and reach a new market of bottom feeders or go the other way and pay influencer to make a silly drinking game to make artificial scarcity in the upper market.

    There's always enough supply and demand that everything is possible.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    With fewer people smoking, the price of cigs sure didn't drop.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Now that... That is interesting man. I've never thought about that.

    But WHY?!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Most of the cost is production and taxes. If demand falls, production resources (land etc) are diverted to more profitable crops. This makes supply fall until prices reach a new equilibrium.

    Taxes then add a fixed offset to that.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I switched to heroin years ago.

    Highly recommended.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, we all gotta pick up the pace. It's not gonna drink itself.

    I'm doing my part!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Hit em where it hurts, cut alcohol, sugar, fat foods, ...

    Be healthy AND make em squirm? Count me in.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    This is a very serious problem. The next generation is going to grow up and be super lame. The coolness gap is a serious threat to our nation al security.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    By that metric, I had to stop drinking because I was way too fucking cool all the time 😄

    Coming up on 9 years in roughly a month and a half 🥳

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's ok brother just like we all get vaccines in part to protect those who can't, so too will we aspire to backfill the alcoholic coolness in solidarity with those who are unable to contribute themselves. For England.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Luckily, tasty nonalcoholic beer now exists, so I'll toast to that! 🍻

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I'm not sober, but I have tried some NA beers, and they're surprisingly good. I have also tried some of the old ones that were pretty nasty. I don't really know why the old ones were bad, or how we now have good ones, but it's nice to see.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Technically, everyone is doing their part in the matter of a number being record low.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I smoke weed i don't regret my actions... I drink and if I am lucky I don't wind up in jail. The same with the cocain. Devils lurk in this body and the weed keeps them in permajail

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    With the world going to shit, drinking helps. Something will kill you sooner or later.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I don't even have alcohol at home anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    So the price of whisky is gonna be reasonable again, right?...........right?........

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It's so hot, I have to drink salts to prevent headaches. What on earth would I want alcohol?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    they lobby against weed in the usa so if you’re living here maybe don’t

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Alcohol kind of sucks compared to other drugs. Anything alcohol does something else does a lot better with less liver damage.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I really enjoy the mellowing out effect but I have that crappy East Asian gene (or lack of specific genes?) that can't process alcohol so I turn red and get headaches right away. You guys will have to drink for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I bet it's been replaced by the Devils lettuce (in the US at least).

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